add a new [authz_policy] section and point the authz_file option to the conf file:

[authz_policy]authz_file=/some/trac/env/conf/authzpolicy.conf

enable the plugin through WebAdmin or by editing the [components] section:

[components]tracopt.perm.authz_policy.*=enabled

Usage Notes

Note the order in which permission policies are specified: policies are implemented in the sequence provided and therefore may override earlier policy specifications.

A policy will return either True, False or None for a given permission check. True is returned if the policy explicitly grants the permission. False is returned if the policy explicitly denies the permission. None is returned if the policy is unable to either grant or deny the permission.

NOTE: Only if the return value is None will the next permission policy be consulted. If none of the policies explicitly grants the permission, the final result will be False, i.e. permission denied.

The authzpolicy.conf file is a .ini style configuration file:

[wiki:PrivatePage@*]john=WIKI_VIEW, !WIKI_MODIFYjack=WIKI_VIEW*=

Each section of the config is a glob pattern used to match against a Trac resource descriptor. These descriptors are in the form:

<realm>:<id>@<version>[/<realm>:<id>@<version> ...]

Resources are ordered left to right, from parent to child. If any component is inapplicable, * is substituted. If the version pattern is not specified explicitly, all versions (@*) is added implicitly. Example: Match the WikiStart page:

# A single repository:[repository:test_repo@*]john=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW# John has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW for the entire test_repo# The default repository (requires Trac 1.0.2 or later):[repository:@*]john=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW# John has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW for the entire default repository# All repositories:[repository:*@*]jack=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW# Jack has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW for all repositories

Very granular repository access:

# John has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW access to trunk/src/some/location/ only[repository:test_repo@*/source:trunk/src/some/location/*@*]john=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW# John has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW access to only revision 1 of all files at trunk/src/some/location only[repository:test_repo@*/source:trunk/src/some/location/*@1]john=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW# John has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW access to all revisions of 'somefile' at trunk/src/some/location only [repository:test_repo@*/source:trunk/src/some/location/somefile@*]john=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW# John has BROWSER_VIEW and FILE_VIEW access to only revision 1 of 'somefile' at trunk/src/some/location only[repository:test_repo@*/source:trunk/src/some/location/somefile@1]john=BROWSER_VIEW, FILE_VIEW

Note: In order for Timeline to work/visible for John, we must add CHANGESET_VIEW to the above permission list.

Missing Features

Although possible with the DefaultPermissionPolicy handling (see Admin panel), fine-grained permissions still miss those grouping features (see ​#9573, ​#5648). Patches are partially available, see authz_policy.2.patch, part of ​#6680.

AuthzSourcePolicy (mod_authz_svn-like permission policy)

AuthzSourcePolicy can be used for restricting access to the repository. Granular permission control needs a definition file, which is the one used by Subversion's mod_authz_svn.
More information about this file format and about its usage in Subversion is available in the ​Path-Based Authorization section in the Server Configuration chapter of the svn book.

/branches/calc/bug-142/secret = harry has no access, sally has read access (inherited as a sub folder permission)

Trac Configuration

To activate granular permissions you must specify the authz_file option in the [svn] section of trac.ini. If this option is set to null or not specified, the permissions will not be used.

[svn]authz_file=/path/to/svnaccessfile

If you want to support the use of the [modulename:/some/path] syntax within the authz_file, add:

authz_module_name=modulename

where modulename refers to the same repository indicated by the <name>.dir entry in the [repositories] section. As an example, if the somemodule.dir entry in the [repositories] section is /srv/active/svn/somemodule, that would yield the following:

Since 1.1.2, the read-only attribute of wiki pages is enabled and enforced when ReadonlyWikiPolicy is in the list of active permission policies. The default for new Trac installations in 1.1.2 and later is:

When upgrading from earlier versions of Trac, ReadonlyWikiPolicy will be appended to the list of permission_policies when upgrading the environment, provided that permission_policies has the default value. If any non-default permission_polices are active, ReadonlyWikiPolicywill need to be manually added to the list. A message will be echoed to the console when upgrading the environment, indicating if any action needs to be taken.

ReadonlyWikiPolicy must be listed before DefaultPermissionPolicy. The latter returns True to allow modify, delete or rename actions when the user has the respective WIKI_* permission, without consideration for the read-only attribute.

The ReadonlyWikiPolicy returns False to deny modify, delete and rename actions on wiki pages when the page has the read-only attribute set and the user does not have WIKI_ADMIN, regardless of WIKI_MODIFY, WIKI_DELETE and WIKI_RENAME permissions. It returns None for all other cases.

When active, the #AuthzPolicy should therefore come before ReadonlyWikiPolicy, allowing it to grant or deny the actions on individual resources, which is the usual ordering for AuthzPolicy in the permission_policies list.

The placement of #AuthzSourcePolicy relative to ReadonlyWikiPolicy does not matter since they don't perform checks on the same realms.

For all other permission policies, the user will need to decide the proper ordering. Generally, if the permission policy should be capable of overriding the check performed by ReadonlyWikiPolicy, it should come before ReadonlyWikiPolicy in the list. If the ReadonlyWikiPolicy should override the check performed by another permission policy, as is the case for DefaultPermissionPolicy, then ReadonlyWikiPolicy should come first.